EVENT: "Women Social Educators as Teachers and Activists," a lecture for area teachers by Margaret Smith Crocco, associate professor at the Teachers College of Columbia University

TIME, DATE, AND PLACE: to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 23, in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library on the University of Rochester's River Campus

ADMISSION: Free and open to the public

July 22, 2003

Margaret Smith Crocco, associate professor of social studies and education
at Columbia University's Teachers College, will give the keynote address at a
summer institute focused on including women in the teaching of American history.
Her talk at 1 p.m. tomorrow, July 23, is open to the public and will be held in the Welles-Brown
Room of Rush Rhees Library on the University of Rochester's River Campus.

Crocco's presentation is part of the two-week American History as Dialogue
Summer Institute co-sponsored by the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education
and Human Development and Monroe #1 BOCES in Fairport. The institute and related
activities throughout the year are directed by Ellen Santora, assistant professor
of teaching and curriculum at the Warner School, and funded by the U.S. Department
of Education's Teaching American History Grant Program.

This year's institute, "Into the Mainstream: Including Women in American
History," is examining critical issues related to women in the American Revolution,
the Industrial Revolution, Social Reform, and the Cold War Era. Participants reflect
on the creation of historical understanding by using rare books, records, documents,
and oral histories. Thirty-six participants representing 13 local and regional
school districts and organizations are developing curriculum modules for use in
their own classes.

Guest Speaker Crocco is an expert on the topic of women social educators. She
is the lead co-author and co-editor of three books: Bending the Future to Their
Will: Civic Women, Social Education and Democracy; Pedagogies of Resistance: Women
Educator Activists, 1880-1960; and Building a Legacy: Women in Social Education
1784-1984.

For more information about the project, contact Ellen Santora at (585) 275-5053
or go to the American History as Dialogue Web site at http://www.rochester.edu/Warner/researchprojects/amerhist.html.

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